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About this movie. Homosexuality was a taboo subject in 1956 Hollywood. So it was a challenge for screenwriter Robert Anderson to adapt his hit Broadway play about a sensitive prepschooler called "sister boy" by his peers, and the lovely housemaster's wife who realizes she must offer more than tea and sympathy to help the boy prove his manhood.
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Synopsis. 1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of Robert Anderson's Broadway play. The original production was considered quite daring in its attitudes towards homosexuality (both ...
Tea And Sympathy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) -- He Is An Off Horse Faculty wife Laura (Deborah Kerr) is just meeting Herb (Edward Andrews), father of their boarder, who is ridiculed by his peers as "Sister Boy," when her husband (Leif Erickson), Herb's old classmate, arrives, in Vincente Minnelli's Tea And Sympathy , 1956.
Tea and Sympathy is a 1953 stage play in three acts by Robert Anderson about a male private school student, Tom Lee, who faces accusations of homosexuality. A woman, Laura, who is married to an instructor, opposes the students' shaming of Lee and romantically pursues him so he can prove that he has a masculine character. [1]
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2 hr 2 min. 7.3 (3,197) In 1956, director Vincente Minnelli teamed up with actors Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, and Leif Erickson to bring to life the powerful drama "Tea and Sympathy". The movie tells the story of Tom Lee (John Kerr), a sensitive and misunderstood prep school student who struggles to fit in with the hyper-masculine culture of his ...
Film Synopsis. A school reunion provides Tom Lee with the pretext for revisiting the New England prep school which had had such a marked effect on his life. In his old room, he casts his mind back ten years to when, a nervous and solitary 17-year-old, he had his first experience of love. The object of his interest was Laura, the wife of his ...
